diamond willow corporate retreatmay 04, 2014 · diamond willow corporate retreat is partnering...
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Diamond Willow Corporate Retreat is partnering with a variety of successful business facilitators and artists to provide offerings that combine exploration of both the right and left sides of the brain!
• Get out of the city and immerse yourself in a workshop on Emotional Intelligence, then spend some time painting in nature.
• Or learn how to deal with difficult people then build a clay bowl!
• Develop your mission statement then play with watercolours.
• Or understand Appreciative Inquiry, and then learn about fly fishing.
The location is inspiring, cell phone coverage is minimal, and the food is amazing – all makings for a perfect corporate retreat.
The 4 days defined herein will occur on May 6, 8, 20, & 22. Plan to attend one or all. Come on your own, send a few from your office, or book the day for your group exclusively!
Of course the program listed below is a sampling of the many courses from which you can choose. We can customize to meet your specific needs including overnight accommodations for multi-day
events.
How will the day look?
Drive out to Diamond Willow (35 min from south Calgary) planning to arrive by 8:30 a.m. Enjoy coffee, fruit and muffins then go to the studio for the morning workshop. At 12:30 pm break for lunch (consists of home-made soups and make-your-own sandwich buffet). The afternoon’s creative session goes from 1:30 - 3:30, then wrap up the day with your ‘take always’ from the morning.
An optional pizza dinner party can be arranged, as can overnight accommodations – before or after your session. Evening activities could be arranged too (yoga, meditation, cooking class, scotch/wine tasting).
We are available to discuss any option you can think of. Call soon as space is limited.
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
Developing Mission, Vision and Values
Who wants to write a mission statement? Not you?
Discussing and developing core strategy like mission, vision, values and outcomes doesn’t need to be painful. The ½ day session will give an overview of mission, vision, values; the full-day session will and lead your team through some key developmental steps and get you well on your way.
Who is this for?
Boards, leadership teams, non –profits
Jim Cullen has nearly thirty years of experience in working with boards, leaders and teams, technical specialists and front-line workers in corporate, non-profit, cultural and public sector organizations. His consulting practice focuses on delivering value in three key areas:
� human resources management, � workshop design and facilitation, � strategic planning for non-profit organizations, with a
specialty in museums.
He has designed and led numerous highly-engaging strategic and business planning workshops for large and small organizations in many different sectors
403 217-1737
ca.linkedin.com/in/jimcullen
Other offerings by Jim Cullen:
Planning Effective Stakeholder Engagement
Mining the Gold from Stakeholder Engagement Results
Strategic Planning for Museums and Non-Profits
Public Value for Museums and Non-Profits
Museum Commerce Fundamentals
Board Effectiveness
A Little Watercolour
Karin Huehold, Artist, instructor
Karin is a much sought after workshop instructor and is known for her sense of fun and creativity. “A Little Watercolor”, her most popular workshop, was designed to share her love of watercolour in a fun, and easy to understand manner. This course is also available on DVD and in a booklet. She has taught a variety of her courses in and around the Calgary area for the last 14 years. Karin also teaches creative sessions for conventions, retreats and business groups.
[email protected] 587-350-2262
Thursday, May 8, 2014
An Introduction to Appreciative Inquiry (AI) for Team/Community Building
Appreciative Inquiry is a powerful positive-focussed approach to team/community building. Gervais will lead you through a half-day introduction to AI that will engage your heart, mind and soul. You will be involved in the telling of and listening to positive stories that will encourage generative thinking and identify actions in a context that will matter to you, your team or community. At the end of the session you will have an understanding of the AI process and philosophy that will enable you to initiate your own inquiry.
Who is this for?
Anyone is welcome. Individuals, groups, teams who want to learn more about affecting positive change. If you have an intact team or group who would like to work on a specific issue you’d be more than welcome, however it will be helpful to know the particular issue ahead of time.
Gervais Goodman, CHRP will lead the session, He, and his wife Janice McDougall, CHRP are Partners in the HR consulting firm of Goodman, McDougall & Associates Ltd. based near Millarville. Incorporated in 1991, they provide facilitation and total rewards programs, services and strategies to a wide variety of organizations - public, private, government and social profit. Find more information please visit www.gmaltd.com or ca.linkedin.com/in/gervaisgoodman or ca.linkedin.com/in/janicemcdougall 403.931.2779
Other offerings from Goodman, McDougall & Associates Ltd. include:
Running Effective Meetings
Strategic Planning through SOAR
Introduction to Total Compensation
A Taste of Fly Fishing
The world of fly fishing is explored including a hands-on fly-casting session. Tackle is provided. Good for beginner to intermediate levels. Casting is the physical skill of fly-fishing, and nearly all fly fishers can benefit by improving their casting.
Lynda McLennan of McLennan Fly Fishing, has taught fly fishing since 1985. She is past president/director of Casting for Life, (a fly-fishing retreat for women recovering from breast cancer) for whom she taught and organized programs for nine years. Lynda received their formal teaching training at the University of Calgary and University of Alberta. Lynda and her husband Jim have operated McLennan Fly Fishing full time for the past 11 years.
www.mclennanflyfishing.com
403-558-2128
Tuesday May 20, 2014
Emotional Intelligence
Since Daniel Goleman’s initial writing on emotional intelligence, interest in ‘EI’ has garnered much attention. This half day workshop will address:
How is EI different from cognitive intelligence & how does EI complement other forms of intelligence?
How is EI measured?
What competencies & skills support EI?
What are the benefits to leaders and their reports developing their EI?
How does EI support leading increasingly diverse workplaces?
Who is this for?
All job levels & sectors, with primary foc
us on current leaders.
Rob Crooks Consulting Group is an independent organizational development consulting practice dedicated to creating healthy, high performing organizations. Rob Crooks, Principal, draws on over 30 years of professional experience including roles as an internal and external consultant, change catalyst, project manager, front-line leader, program developer and human resources professional to provide effective business solutions. Rob holds a designation as a Canadian Human Resources Professional and is currently completing certification in a recognized Emotional Intelligence program. Rob is active in the not for profit community and currently sits on the Human Resources Committee for Wood’s Homes.
Rob Crooks, CHRP Rob Crooks Consulting Group ca.linkedin.com/in/robcrookschrp
403 968-8442
Also by Rob:
Succession Planning ‘101’
Creating and Sustaining High Performing Teams
Acrylic Landscapes for Novices
With this beginner level class we offer people of all levels of ability an opportunity to have fun learning to create fine works of art in a supportive and inspirational. Taking images from Diamond Willow, you will create a landscape painting to be proud of. We believe everyone can learn to paint and draw!
Nancy-Lynne Hughes has extensive experience teaching the finer aspects of painting and encourages individual growth. Having led numerous weekend retreats at Diamond Willow, she has painted extensively from the scenery here, and always helps students overcome their stumbling blocks to grow a love for painting.
www.Hughesfineart.ca
403 457-1423
Thursday, May 22, 2014
Working with difficult behaviours without becoming difficult yourself
Challenging customer on the phone? Red faced by the water cooler? In this class we will look at 9 archetypes of difficult behaviours and identify practical strategies for handling each.
Students will walk away with a little more insight into what can be underlying difficult behaviours, and tips for managing their own emotions and effective communications. Practicing through role-plays will lend confidence to new skills.
Who is this for?
Front line staff, managers, customer service reps. Hospital, school or town hall staff.
Marjorie Munroe is a Chartered Mediator, Certified Training Practitioner and Workplace Fairness Analyst specializing in workplace conflict resolution and assessment.
Marjorie believes that people who feel heard, understood and acknowledged are more engaged and more productive. Through mediation, facilitation and training, Marjorie works with clients to improve working relationships and workplace conflict management systems. She works in both union and non-union environments and has worked extensively with the Government of Alberta and Alberta Health Services.
www.marjoriemunroe.com [email protected] 403.542.6998
Other offerings by Workplace Fairness Alberta: Workplace Health Turning Conflict into Cooperation Leading through Conflict- Building Consensus
Pottery Class
The afternoon’s workshop features creativity as the group learns to make a beautiful hand built clay bowl in the studio. The bowls are fun to make and clay skills are learned. Leader Connie Pike of Pikes Studio in High River will bisque fire and glaze the bowls.
Connie Pike: Humans have been making pots for over 10,000 years; I have been making pots for only forty. I make useful forms: to drink from and eat from, to make tea in, to display flowers. Although they are simple utilitarian forms—cup, plate, teapot, vase—their variations are limitless. Creating within the boundaries of these formal themes is the endless delight of making pots.
Making and firing clay objects requires various kinds of knowledge: of materials and processes, of clay and glazes, of kilns and firing, as well as the hard won skill of creating clay forms. I love the multiplicity of learning necessary to the craft—the technical, physical, intellectual, aesthetic, and historical challenges.
I am awed by the beauty and variety of the objects that comprise the long ceramic continuum. I am constantly amazed at the variety of what other clay artists are creating. Ceramics is such a rich field of exploration.
403-652-5255